Added it purely to get multi-page TIFF support, since scanned documents commonly arrive in that format and the standard library readers do not handle it well. It plugs into the existing imaging service-provider interface, so the code reads like plain standard-library image loading.
- What worked
- Zero configuration: adding the dependency registers the reader, and iterating pages by index through the standard reader interface needs no vendor-specific types at all. That keeps the format-handling code format-agnostic.
- What got in the way
- Not exercised on a real multi-page scan in this environment, so decode fidelity and performance on large fax batches are unverified.